J.M. Vargas wrote:B&N sale ends Aug. 1st so you have 11 days or so (assuming all the "CHE" copies aren't sold by then) to rob somebody.

LOL - I'm lucky enough to make tips where I work so , next paycheck (thursday), I will order CHE - this will be my first Criterion.I don't buy many DVDs but I can't wait to hear the historical commentary on this. I read a biography of Che at the beginning of the year and my curiosity still wasn't satisfied.

J.M. Vargas wrote:B&N sale ends Aug. 1st so you have 11 days or so (assuming all the "CHE" copies aren't sold by then) to rob somebody.

LOL - I'm lucky enough to make tips where I work so , next paycheck (thursday), I will order CHE - this will be my first Criterion.I don't buy many DVDs but I can't wait to hear the historical commentary on this. I read a biography of Che at the beginning of the year and my curiosity still wasn't satisfied.

Sorry to disappoint you Steve, I love Seven Samurai, but I can't see myself owning it ...yet. I'd buy the Criterion of Brazil and maybe even Stary Dog before I bu that one. Oh and I've already seen Che - i perasonally think it's a masterpiece- because, despite what you said, Soderbergh doesn't seem to have an agenda. He plunges almost directly in the jungle with no background and he seems to view Che as a human being and not as some kind of Messiah. I was kind of wary about seeing the film because I don't agree with communism but it shows us that Che was both much more and much less than the image that usually surrounds him.

Gabriel Girard wrote:Sorry to disappoint you Steve, I love Seven Samurai, but I can't see myself owning it ...yet. I'd buy the Criterion of Brazil and maybe even Stary Dog before I bu that one. Oh and I've already seen Che - i perasonally think it's a masterpiece- because, despite what you said, Soderbergh doesn't seem to have an agenda. He plunges almost directly in the jungle with no background and he seems to view Che as a human being and not as some kind of Messiah. I was kind of wary about seeing the film because I don't agree with communism but it shows us that Che was both much more and much less than the image that usually surrounds him.

I think by ignoring some key moments where Guevara was implicit in or otherwise committed a few heinous atrocities kind of steals some of the thunder myself. That's not to say i didn't really enjoy the movie (I did!) or think that Soderbergh didn't knock it out of the park (he did!) The film just kind of portrays him as a little less turbulent of a figure than he actually was, and while it doesn't try to portray him as a saint or benevolent soul, the fact that it didn't really get into his dark side is definitely a weakness from my perspective.

As for your thoughts on Communism; We're Canadians man! We're all dirty commies!

Steve Power better not be smoking crack because I bought Clash of the Titans based on his glowing comments. Also hit B&N for more Criterion goodness and walked away with The Secret of the Grain on blu and Eclipse: Sasha Guitry....almost typed in Sasha Grey. Heh.

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HGervais wrote:Steve Power better not be smoking crack because I bought Clash of the Titans based on his glowing comments. Also hit B&N for more Criterion goodness and walked away with The Secret of the Grain on blu and Eclipse: Sasha Guitry....almost typed in Sasha Grey. Heh.

Hey now, I said i had fun, I didn't say "movie of the year" or anything

^^^ I am, because I keep going back to B&N to buy stuff even though I'm TOTALLY BROKE!

Roberto Rossellini's WAR TRILOGY (Box Set) - went to every B&N store in Manhattan looking for this and found the last copy on the last store I went to. This, the OOP Studio Canal titles still in the pipeline and the "Sanjuro-Yojimbo" Blu-ray Box Set were the first things to go when the B&N sale started.Robert Rossellini's THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS (DVD)EASTER PARADE (2-DISC SE)WE ARE MARSHALL (HD-DVD) - three bucks after discount.

J.M. Vargas wrote:^^^ I am, because I keep going back to B&N to buy stuff even though I'm TOTALLY BROKE!

Ditto. Still, these are hard to pass up.

Roberto Rossellini's WAR TRILOGY (Box Set) - went to every B&N store in Manhattan looking for this and found the last copy on the last store I went to. This, the OOP Studio Canal titles still in the pipeline and the "Sanjuro-Yojimbo" Blu-ray Box Set were the first things to go when the B&N sale started.

Same here. Both my local B&N's were OOS, so online for me. Maybe a couple of the Eclipse sets that I don't have and possibly the blu-ray of By Brakhage and then I'm done.

"The most dementing of all modern sins: the inability to distinquish excellence from success."-David Hare

Did you get the five-disc Box Set with the extended (i.e. original length) TV version or the edited-for-cinema international theatrical version that won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (i.e. the cheaptest of the two)? If you got the former then F*** YEAH!!!!, and if you got the latter then... uhh, yay?!?!

Rambo - Extended cut - on Bluray. Watched it this evening, and found myself enjoying it considerably more than the theatrical cut. This is actually the version I "saw" a few months before Lion's Gate picked it up... strange that.

Did you get the five-disc Box Set with the extended (i.e. original length) TV version or the edited-for-cinema international theatrical version that won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (i.e. the cheaptest of the two)? If you got the former then F*** YEAH!!!!, and if you got the latter then... uhh, yay?!?!

I also joined in the B&N madness and ordered the following on Blu:Days of HeavenWalkaboutRed Desert

Is this a once a year thing or do they also do it later in the year? There's a couple of others I wanted (The Thin Red Line & Black Orpheus) but they're pre-orders at the moment.

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